Description

Witold Lutoslawski: Strawchain & Other Songs was written in 1951 for Polish Radio, Strawchain & Other Songs presents a series of contrasting songs about natureandpeople. Strawchain itself is a set of variations where the Piano weaves around the unchanging melody.

Lutoslawski‘s idiom is carefully crafted with short, memorable motifs andimaginativeresponses to the mixture of Polish traditional poems and contemporary writers. Arranged and translated into English by Marie Pooler.

The full score of the original orchestration is available for sale,order number:SOS03307.

Contents

1. I Straw Hats And Straw Boots
2. Ii Little Well
3. Iii Rosebushes
4. In Johann’s Garden
5. Iv Our Dog
6. Little Pear Tree
7. Prelude (Without Voices)
8. Strawchain
9. The Blossoming Tree
10. The Little Cottage
11. The Sound In The Forest
12. The Woman And The Goat
13. V Flowers In The Winter
14. Vi The Old Cow
15. Vii Straw Braids